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Exploring the Veggie Food Trail to India Delhi, Mumbai and Bhuj A trip to India means a vegetarian food orgy!…

Creative Rajni brings the flavors of Kerala cooking to American food – so you can say it’s as American as Dosa Pie! Check out the novel recipes which bring East and West together.

To bite into a mango and get that sweet, sticky juice squirting all over your chin and clothes is to drift back into blissful childhood, into days that seemed to have no beginning and no end.

Foodie Paradise – Indian corn on the cob – take a bite!

In a changing economy & environment, it helps to have always been creative with very little. Every day at lunch break at the Convent of Jesus and Mary School in Delhi, India, hordes of ink-stained white-uniformed schoolgirls would surround me, salivating for a taste of my home-made lunch: aam ke achaar ke sandwiches.

What can be better than going home for Christmas, especially if home happens to be warm and sunny Goa? Chris and Beverly D’Souza with their young son Luke visited Goa, their hometown, far away from the cold of New York. This story is a Christmas tradition on Lassi with Lavina!

How about Bombay Masala Puffs for your guests during the holiday season? Easy to put together with ingredients you probably have in your pantry.

What can be easier to whip up than carrot coconut ladoos? Nandini Mukherjee shows how to make them in easy steps.

ith the Diwali season approaching you do want to give the family something traditional – and something new! How about Ras Malai Cake Jars which give them the best of both worlds and are quite easy to prepare. And guess who’s doing the teaching – PB! Yes, that stands for Patel Brothers, the amazing genie-like store which always saves us when it comes to ingredients that we must have to make our Indian goodies.

We all want chocolate but we also want our traditions – and we want them quick!
This chocolate barfi satisfies all the conditions!

The menu included everything from malpuras (sweet breads) to pakoras, vada pav and ragda pattis (snacks) to main courses including Paneer ki Khurchan and dessert of rich kulfis served in little clay pots. There were mounds of jalebis and multicolored mithai. Fresh puris made of green peas were being fried on the spot.

Have you ever tried Makhana bhel or chaat? This low calorie health food can be quite an exciting edition to your menu!

Here’s a delicious recipe for chaat from Maneet Chauhan – call your friends for an all hands on deck summer chaat party!

There are several Indian-American chefs and restaurateurs shortlisted for the James Beard Foundation Awards – the Oscars of the food industry

Don’t you just love love stories and happy endings? When I first did the story with chocolatiers on their own sweet romances, it was a popular post. This year I thought I’d go back and see if there were any romantic updates. Yes, there were – including an adorable baby!

Shefalee Patel, our only chocolatier who was single had found true love and Aarti Mahtani Raman who had just got married now has a baby boy!
So here is a Valentine’s Day Treat – true love stories!

India runs on spice! A billion plus people can’t be wrong – they swear by the tangy, sour-sweet spicy street foods of India. Indeed, there is something homey and comforting about street foods, almost like the hug of a mother. Not surprisingly many of these street treats go back to ancient times and have been a part of Indian tradition and memory.

Chaat is that delicious dish that nobody can turn down – it’s guaranteed to bring back childhood, friendship and family memories and helps make new relationships as you stand on city streets, and all for some spare change. chaat is the synonym for a buddy’s hug – always gets you beaming.

How would you like to watch Hindi blockbusters and eat Indian food all day? That seems to be the delightful lifestyle Indian-American filmmaker and writer Sri Rao is blessed with! This Philadelphia native has taken two things which everyone loves – Indian food and Bollywood movies – and made a fun living out of them.

Chef Aarthi Sampath creates a Recipe for Resilience for the series of positivity during the pandemic initated by Children’s Hope India

Happy Thanksgiving! Introducing Vice President Elect Kamala Harris’s Cornbread Dressing – and some choice coments from the Twitter World!